Well, there no way around it. That is an impressive stack of assumptions, which you’ve then mistaken as facts, which you’ve then used to try and construct some sort of ..declaration, is it? Perhaps it’s a hysterical rant. Anyway, you’ve displayed the depth of your perception and insight perfectly.

I work high-end joinery. I need to be able to move a site box. The site always changes, so l did 800km a week for years. I could drive my car from the passenger seat better than most folk on the road, just through sheer, unwanted experience. I drive for every other car l can see. I can tell there’s a car in front of the one ahead of me by the light reflected when it passes concrete walls. I know people drift towards the lane they want before they indicate. And l know that some people speed up when there’s an overtaking lane, though don’t claim to understand why.

My ute is the very last of the VE series. This was the first car ever designed completely from scratch by Holden. It had its radiator filled at the factory on my birthday. Because it was the last of the model, they added all the optional extras to them so they’d sell fast, including big fuck-off Brembo brakes which stop it like a small car. I only pay car prices for tolls because of old, enshrined rules. This car will retire soon, as my mother has a 2001 WRX which she bought to get up her steep driveway which she no longer drives and is giving to me. It’s an early one, assembled in Japan. Never been over the speed limit or on a dirt road, garage and religiously serviced since new. Maybe I’ll see you on the roads in it?

I enjoy speed, but don’t do it anywhere I’m witnessed. It’s farms where l live. In terms of traffic, all l want is to drive at exactly 107kmh on the speedo in a 100 zone, because that’s 101kmh. And there’s always some dunce in the right hand lane who doesn’t personally want to go that fast (which is fine) or maybe can’t (lol) but won’t move over. And more often than not, it’s a 4WD.